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BlogThe New University Conference and the Chancellor Election of 1969
Between the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and women’s liberation, the 1960s was a decade ripe for student activism on college campuses. Indiana University was no…
BlogA Very ‘Super’ Spring!
A Very Super Spring! As most of you probably already know, Batman Vs. Superman has been released into theaters. The synopsis is basically the two heroes having an action packed…
BlogThe Saga of the Alma Eikerman papers
Alma Eikerman was a successful metalsmith, an innovative jewelry designer, world traveler, and beloved professor at Indiana University from 1947 to 1978. She was in countless…
BlogIU’s Contemporary Dance Program
The Terpsichoreans, n.d. Indiana University’s Contemporary Dance Program dates back to 1927. Dancer Jane Fox, a graduate of Columbia University (NY), came to the IU campus as a…
BlogCan “Terminator” be Great Again?
Over the past 32 years, the world has received five different Terminator films, vastly ranging in quality. The first film, known simply as The Terminator was released in 1984…
BlogFloating Disks
Sorry, this isn’t about alien spaceships. It is about how we designed an enclosure for delaminating lacquer disks so that their delicate surfaces do not come in contact with the…
BlogTwo or Three thoughts on “Gay Film”
1. The English language abducted the word “queer” from the Germans around the time English became an entity of large scale language abduction in the 16th century. It was a word…
BlogSincerely Yours – Letters from the Archives : The Pering Letter
Blog post about the Pering Letters.
BlogThe Mid-’90s Female Bildungsroman, Part 1: “Muriel’s Wedding” and the Poles of Female Embodiment
When I first saw the film “Matilda” with my family in 1998, my brothers insisted that I looked just like her. Though they meant it as a gendered taunt, I was all too happy to…